Month: April 2014

“In contrast to the State, the libertarian society is a civilized society. But what we have now is an incredibly uncivilized society because institutionalized aggression and slavery of the people is exactly what the State is.”
An article by Scott Lazarowicz, entertaining and intelligent, so please go READ IT!

[Janet Yellen, now chairman of TheFed] has decided … yes, She has decided that a 2% inflation rate is just the answer to our economic troubles. And She has also decided that zero interest rates are here to stay for a while. Yes, She has decided and She has spoken. Praise unto the Federal Reserve Chairperson.

Three Supreme Court justices, one famous president, a bloody war, and the language of a modern pledge of allegiance offer conclusive proof that secession, while an entertaining philosophical exercise, has no legal basis.

…Our position is not merely that the state is a moral evil, but that human liberty is a tremendous moral good. Human beings ought to interact with each other on the basis of reason – their distinguishing characteristic – rather than with hangmen and guns. And when they do so, the results, by a welcome happenstance, are rising living standards, an explosion in creativity and technological advance, and peace. Even in the world’s partially capitalist societies, hundreds of millions if not billions of people have been liberated from the miserable, soul-crushing conditions of hand-to-mouth existence in exchange for far more meaningful and fulfilling lives….

Earning a living wage is important. Seems to me the only people whining about people earning a living wage are the people that neither need or have ever made so low an income. If these rich crybabies want to pay their help more, why do they need the government to tell them they must? Raising […]